Does Putin really ‘prefer Biden to Trump’? Russia's leader is keeping us guessing

Bethany Elliott

London’s new train line names: not a ‘great man’ in sight

Mary Harrington

The EU will turn to Britain for nuclear protection If the US pulls out of Nato, the bloc has another ally it can depend on

Nearly 1 in 5 Americans believe Taylor Swift is part of psyop to re-elect Biden A new poll finds a significant percentage are suspicious of the singer's motives

Wednesday

14.02

News round-up: Military rule, Princeton defends DEI & US jobs growth

Guardian writer claims parkrun is a ‘battleground’ for trans people

Downtown San Francisco is beyond redemption A declining population has been compounded by social problems

The Body Shop goes bust: Gen Z sours on beauty giant

Kristina Murkett

EU elections poll: record surge for French hard-Right Populist parties are expected to capitalise on public anger

Valentine’s Day marred by loneliness crisis Social bonds have long been fraying — but there is a solution

Tuesday

13.02

New York special election: immigration and abortion dominate The race to replace former Congressman George Santos has national implications

News round-up: UK farmer protests, Labour loses Muslim support & Harvard’s hunger strike

Geert Wilders popularity grows as political crisis deepens

‘Uncancellable’ — Kanye West album reaches number one Vultures 1 has topped the charts in over 100 countries on iTunes

Jon Stewart’s Daily Show is a joke that got old

Donald Tusk: mass migration is a ‘civilisational threat’ Poland's new PM warned that the country had to 'wake up'

Monday

12.02

What would a Kamala Harris presidency look like? The Vice President has announced that she is 'ready to serve'

PM round-up: Kanye West, RFK Jr. & Edinburgh’s new gender-critical rector

Gender-critical Stonewall founder named Edinburgh University rector Simon Fanshawe will assume office next month

Gen Z doesn’t want disco cathedrals

America is driving Germany’s deindustrialisation The promise of LNG in place of Russian gas has not materialised

Philip Pilkington

Labour’s Rochdale controversy is more than just a gaffe Azhar Ali's anti-Israel comments reveal a stubborn conspiracism within the party

Sunday

11.02

Soho House was always doomed to fail

Saturday

10.02

Polyamory is the next big culture war issue

Friday

09.02

Joe Biden is driving America off a fiscal cliff The deficit is expected to soar to over $2 trillion in the next decade

PM Update: Tucker meets Vlad, gender critical court win & Piers Morgan

Are Europe’s farmers winning?

Ralph Schoellhammer

Shahrar Ali wins gender-critical case against Green Party A court ruled that the former deputy leader was discriminated against

Tucker Carlson is no friend of Vladimir Putin

Mary Harrington

Rory Stewart should not be leading Oxford University The ex-politician has been tipped for the chancellorship

Thursday

08.02

Jonathan Haidt: abolish DEI to save academia The professor warned that campuses were now ideologically captured

Do we really need another chummy centrist podcast?

Labour’s green U-turn is a gift to the Tories Keir Starmer is abandoning his party's flagship scheme

Newsroom update: South America’s new Caesar, Palantir, and Taylor Swift

Major trans survey avoids mention of detransitioners

Eliza Mondegreen

Italian farmers rise up against ‘establishment’ Meloni Her government is viewed as an extension of the EU

Porn: the latest front in the masculinity wars A controversial NPR article has triggered a heated debate

Wednesday

07.02

Why won’t progressives speak up about NHS conversion therapy?

Josephine Bartosch

Joe Biden is weaponising misinformation ahead of election The White House has poured tens of millions into a questionable AI scheme

Ashley Rindsberg

US conservatives attack Netflix for gay Alexander the Great A new series has been accused of caving to fashionable ideas

Black Britons least likely to get MMR vaccine

Tuesday

06.02

Third-party candidates could win Trump the White House again New polling paints a worrying picture for Joe Biden

The hidden danger of the Apple Vision Pro The technology risks creating another barrier between humans

Timandra Harkness

Stand by for the Liz Truss comeback

Newsroom update: Popcons, Tucker in Moscow and are the farmers winning?

Will a new conservative party replace the Tories? A British challenger should look to Europe as a model for success

Lee Fang: my warning to Congress on censorship The journalist discusses the insidious alliances between Big Tech and government

Is Zelenskyy surrounding himself with yes-men? Ukraine's President has said a leadership 'reset' is needed

Bethany Elliott

King Charles’s illness is a lesson in solidarity

Monday

05.02

Labour’s equal pay promise is DEI in disguise The party has radical plans for a race equality act

The US border bill won’t solve the migrant crisis

Has the commercial real estate crisis finally arrived? Regional banks are proving a lot less resilient than their own clients

The Brics+ alliance is growing stronger Both Russia and Iran's economies are outperforming expectations

Philip Pilkington

Latest US strikes mark yet another escalation in the Middle East

David Patrikarakos

Sunday

04.02

Is Europe facing another fall of Constantinople?

Northern Ireland’s new first minister is a symbolic coup for Sinn Féin Michelle O'Neill is the first nationalist to lead the region

Saturday

03.02

Why are there no British farmer protests?

Andrew Sullivan: What I got wrong about Trump The conservative thinker revisits his earlier views

Friday

02.02

New York Times gets braver with gender coverage The paper is no longer shying away from difficult questions around transitioning

Eliza Mondegreen

Women protest Network Rail’s capitulation to Stonewall The railway company has been mocked for its seasonal 'Pride Pillar'

Josephine Bartosch

Peter Thiel’s steroid Olympics will hurt the poor

The Clapham attack endangers the social contract Both ends of society are undermining postwar norms

Mary Harrington

Will US colleges face a reckoning over Covid?

Leslie Bienen and Philip Marks

Marine Le Pen’s AfD spat is dividing the European Right The French politician has diverged with the German party on immigration

Thursday

01.02

Joe Biden’s war on fossil fuels is hurting America California should not be the President's energy model

Elbridge Colby: America will choose Asia over Europe Donald Trump's former security advisor says American defence must focus on China

Labour’s ‘radicalism’ isn’t radical at all

Ukraine’s military is beset by political division Confusion over the sacking of a general has revealed Zelenskyy's falling popularity

David Patrikarakos

Keir Starmer bows to trans activists over conversion therapy

Will Europe lose World War III? Aris Roussinos, Elbridge Colby and Pippa Malmgren on our new global conflict

Wednesday

31.01

Nicola Sturgeon won’t give up her lockdown dogmatism

How should Biden respond to Iran? By withdrawing The President can learn from Ronald Reagan's response to the Beirut bombings

Is Germany entering a new Weimar era? Several new parties have emerged in recent months

Ralph Schoellhammer

The Orbán feud highlights the EU’s declining authority

Philip Cunliffe

85% of US colleges limit free speech Restrictive policies have increased in the last two years

Tuesday

30.01

Would Democrats actually vote for Michelle Obama?

Nancy Pelosi stirs the Russiagate pot (again) The politician suggested that pro-Palestine protests were linked to Moscow

Ashley Rindsberg

Is ‘queer theatre’ still transgressive? Charlie Josephine's new play Cowbois feels depressingly familiar

Josephine Bartosch

France’s farmer protests are a revolt against the City

The Russians are not landing at Dover Talk of conscription is premature while Putin struggles in Ukraine

Bethany Elliott

Monday

29.01

Ilhan Omar: part progressive, part ethno-nationalist The Congresswoman promised to defend the interests of Somalis in the US

Prime Minister Starmer will be more hawkish than any Tory